'Home Alone 5' Greenlit For ABC Family

ABC Family is reviving the Home Alone franchise with a fifth installment, which will air as part of the network’s popular “25 Days Of Christmas” holiday lineup. It comes 10 years after the most recent Home Alone movie, telefilm Home Alone 4: Taking Back The House. Here is the release:

Burbank, CA (March 15, 2012) – ABC Family and Fox TV Studios announced that production has
begun on the latest installment in the popular “Home Alone” franchise, starring Malcolm McDowell,
Debi Mazar, Edward Asner, Eddie Steeples, and Christian Martyn. The movie is set to premiere as
part of the network’s annual “25 Days of Christmas” programming event.

In “Home Alone 5: Alone in the Dark” eight-year-old Finn (Martyn) is terrified to learn his family is
relocating from sunny California to Maine, and the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that
his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left
home alone with his sister (Jodelle Ferland) while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s
traps catch a new target – a group of thieves (McDowell, Mazar, Eddie Steeples) who have targeted
Finn’s house. Produced by Fox Television Studios, the movie is directed by Peter Hewitt (“Garfield”),
and written by Aaron Ginsburg & Wade McIntyre (“The Finder”).

Part of the Disney/ABC Television Group, ABC Family is distributed in over 97 million homes. ABC
Family features programming reflecting today’s families, entertaining and connecting with adults
through relatable programming about today’s relationships – told with a mix of diversity, passion,
humor and heart. ABC Family’s programming is a combination of network defining original series
and original movies, quality acquired series and blockbuster theatricals. Emmy® Award-winning
ABCFamily.com provides a variety of interactive entertainment and community features, from rich,
fan-centric programming – including blogs, viewing parties, webisodes, full episodes of the network’s
hit programming, along with sneak peek exclusive previews and behind-the-scenes clips. ABC
Family is also the destination for annual Holiday events with “13 Nights of Halloween” and “25 Days
of Christmas.” ABC Family. A New Kind of Family.

Fox Television Studios produces scripted and unscripted programming for US broadcast and cable
networks, and international broadcasters. The studio produces the hit series Burn Notice, currently
in its sixth season, and White Collar, which just wrapped its fourth season, both for USA; The Killing
for AMC, which debuts its second season on April 1; and the series The Glades for A&E, currently
in season three. FtvS pilots currently in production include Graceland, from White Collar creator
Jeff Eastin, for USA, as well as The Americans for FX, and This American Housewife for
Lifetime. Among the studio’s unscripted programming is the competition series The Great Escape for
TNT.

7 Comments

I love ABC Family’s 25 days of Christmas, but I want to see good classic movies and specials, not cheapo made-for-TV garbage.

Anon • on Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

The first two Home Alones were great, but Home Alone 3 is underrated.

BZ • on Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

The version featured in The Critic pilot is superior.

HughesFan • on Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

John Hughes must be rolling in his grave! Nobody is home at Fox these days…

Jed • on Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

ABC Family…please…give this franchise up already…the first two were great, the next two were abysmal and this one has absolutely no promise to it. Come up with something new!

Bob • on Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

What, are they trying to start a Bond franchise here?

sum guy • on Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

I had an idea for this the other day. Have Macaulay Culkin go on a family vacation after accidentally leaving his son behind and after taking away his cell phone. Then kinda like in the original he must go on a road trip to get back, but Buzz (his brother) and Jeff (from pete and pete) go with him because they want to get away from their kids, hilarity ensues. Then you have Daniel Stern & Joe Pesci show up at the Mcalister house after breaking out of prison to get revenge on Macaulay Culkin, but instead they find the son who destroys them once again. Plus you could have Macaulay Culkin telling a bedtime story to his kid about the time that he beat to burglars and saved the day inspiring his son to do the same. Or it could even be a daughter. What do you think? If you like it spread the story idea. if not change the son to bieber and have the wet bandits Pesci & Stern kill the kid by drowning in the end.